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...What's the issue? A very basic one: whether Hong Kong people will be allowed to directly elect their Chief Executive and all of their legislators. The Basic Law promises direct elections as an "ultimate aim." Currently, the Chief Executive is chosen by an 800-member electoral college that is overwhelmingly pro-Beijing, and 60% of the Legislative Council, or Legco, the territory's law-making body, is appointed or elected from business and social groups that strongly favor the status quo. The Basic Law says that setup can be changed "if there is a need...
...those dates are just around the corner. Yes. If Hong Kong is to directly elect its top official in 2007 and all of Legco in 2008, the process of altering election laws has to begin soon. More importantly, public pressure is intensifying. Last July, half a million people took to Hong Kong's streets to protest security legislation proposed by the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. That bill has since been shelved indefinitely. But almost overnight the movement rallied to a new demand: direct elections. And now Beijing wants to rule on that issue. Its concern is that...
What is most terrifying about last week’s election is that it is a casebook lesson in why terrorism works: In their fear and anger, Spanish voters acquiesced to the terrorists’ demands. Afraid that Spanish support for the war in Iraq fueled the bombing, voters pulled their support of a man who has a history of aggressive, anti-terrorism efforts designed to make Spain safer, only to elect a man who promised to withdraw from Iraq. Immediately following the election, Zapatero announced that Spain’s 1,300 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq unless...
Americans have come to regard North Korea as the greatest threat to U.S. security in Asia. But another challenging situation could be brewing within the borders of one of Washington's closest Asian allies. Taiwan is set to elect a President to a four-year term this weekend, and the outcome, security experts say, could have a profound effect on U.S. relations with China. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province but has in recent years been content with a murky status quo--one that permits de facto independence for Taiwan so long as it doesn't formally separate from China...
...appeasement charge also implies that Spaniards have chosen to elect a new government less tough on terror than the old. But when, on Monday, Zapatero declared that his “most immediate priority will be to fight terrorism,” I saw no reason to doubt his sincerity. Unfortunately, conservatives suffer from a proclivity to conflate “toughness” on Iraq with “toughness” on terror—an equation that is patently flawed...